Improved sad-iron heater



J. N. TITSWORTH. Sad Iron Heatr. m No. 44.473. Patented'Septy27, I864.

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' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE JOHN N. TITSVVORTH, OF AURORA, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVED SAD-IRON HEATER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 44,473, dated September 27, 1864.

-ful Improvements in Heaters i'or Sad-Irons;

and I do hereby decare that the following is a full and exact description of the construction and operation of the same.

The accompanying drawings form a part of 5 this specification.

Figure 1 is a plan view; Fig. 2, an end elevation; Fig. 3, a transverse section on the line S S, Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the drawings.

My heater is adapted to apply upon the top of an ordinary stove or range, and to inclose and cover the irons with two thicknesses of sheet metal while they rest directly on the heated surface below. The irons lie flat on the top of the stove or range and receive the heat directly therefrom. The whole is so arranged that the part which covers one iron may be lifted without disturbing that which covers either of the others, when more than one is heated in the same heater, and that each cover may be raised to allow the introduction of an iron under it by a very easy manipulation.

To enable others skilled in the art to make and use my invention, I will proceed to describe its construction and operation by the aid of the drawings and of the letters of reference marked thereon.

A is a case of sheet-iron. a c are handles riveted thereon.

B is a stout wire extending longitudinally along the center of the top of the case A? This latter forms an axis on which the several covers may turn.

, sented. I make thelower sheet of tinned iron,

which has the property of reflecting back much of the heat which it receives. 1 make the interior sheet of the casing A also of i tinned iron, and I join the sheets by folding the inner over the outer at their upper and l lower edges. I make the notches c d, &c., i very long, reaching inward nearly to the axis 1 B. I make the covers 0 D longer than half the width of the case A, so that they each i overhang the case, as represented. I make f the case A a little higher than the thickness of the main body of the sad-iron.

The several notches cl 0, &c., are each a very little wider than the connections m between the hand-piece m'and the main body M. The gravity of the covers tends to keep them shut down, but either may be lifted to introduce or remove an iron.

To use my invention, I place it upon the stove or other suitable hot surface, and seizm, bring it into the position indicated in Fig. 3. I now lift the iron, and thus raise the cover to an angle of some twenty degrees. I next slide the iron forward until the connection m between the hand piece m and the main body M strikes the inner end-of the notch d. I now lower the iron to its place, and the cover D D immediately closes. The same process introduces the other irons, each under a separate cover. The removal of each iron is effected by the reversal of this process, except that the cover may be allowed to drop as rapidly as it chooses, instead of being lowered on the point of the iron.

cheaply constructed, and allows several irons to be heated at once; also, that it allows each to be removed and replaced without disturbing any other; also, that the space in which the irons are inclosed is protected from flective of the heat; also, that the notches c d, &c., allow the employment of sad-irons having considerable variation in form and size, and yet protect the space inclosed by the device from any considerable circulation of airwithin it; and, also, and especially, that the several notched covers 0 c D d, &c., by overhanging the case A in the manner described, to allow each to be lifted by the point of the iron itself without necessitating the employment of the other hand, and without involving any appreciable labor.

I am aware that several devices for heating flat-irons under cover have been before proing an iron, M, by the handle or handle-piece It will be observed that my heater may be,

the air by a covering, which is also highly reposed, but am not aware of any which are l each cover projecting suiiioiently beyond the constructed in the same manner or so as to I ease A to allow it to be raised by the point of realize the same advantages as mine. the iron substantially in the manner herein What I claim as my invention, and desire to set forth. secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

As a new article of manufacture a sad-iron Witnesses: heater composed of the casing A and hinged A. E. SEARLES, em'ers O c D d, &c., with the outer edge of H. A. SEARLES.

JOHN N. TITSWORTH. 

